Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Synonyms: Cucullaea (Macrodon) Buckman 1882, Macrodon Buckman 1882
Full reference: F. B. Meek and A. H. Worthen. 1866. Descriptions of invertebrates from the Carboniferous System, Illinois. Geological Survey of Illinois 2:145-411
Parent taxon: Parallelodontinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Anelli et al. 2006, Bittner 1895, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Scholz et al. 2008 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Carbonarca, Curvirostrum, Glyptarca
Subtaxa: Macrodon badiana Macrodon curionii Macrodon elongatum Macrodon elongatus Macrodon esinense Macrodon formosum Macrodon geminum Macrodon hamiltonae Macrodon imbricarius Macrodon juttensis Macrodon klipsteini Macrodon mediodepressum Macrodon punctata Macrodon rufae Macrodon scaber Macrodon solitarius Macrodon strigilatum Macrodon sturi Macrodon subesinensis Macrodon truncatus Parallelodon (Gilbertwhitea) Parallelodon anaklastum Parallelodon apenninicus Parallelodon beyrichii Parallelodon bimodoliratus Parallelodon bittneri Parallelodon brenensis Parallelodon cancellosus Parallelodon capillatus Parallelodon carsulanus Parallelodon chemungensis Parallelodon comptus Parallelodon corbina Parallelodon datianensis Parallelodon desioi Parallelodon dickinsi Parallelodon elongatum Parallelodon groeberi Parallelodon guizhouensis Parallelodon hettangiensis Parallelodon hirsonensis Parallelodon hubeiensis Parallelodon interrupta Parallelodon jiaozishanensis Parallelodon kingiana Parallelodon laochangensis Parallelodon latisinuatus Parallelodon lianyuanensis Parallelodon licharewi Parallelodon longus Parallelodon maxiai Parallelodon minima Parallelodon monobensis Parallelodon multilamellatus Parallelodon multistriatus Parallelodon obsoletus Parallelodon qinghaiensis Parallelodon rectangulus Parallelodon respectus Parallelodon riccardii Parallelodon rudis Parallelodon rugosus Parallelodon sangamonensis Parallelodon striatus Parallelodon subarguta Parallelodon subtilistriatus Parallelodon sulcatus Parallelodon tectum Parallelodon tenuistriatus Parallelodon theodorensis Parallelodon trapezium Parallelodon trimuensis Parallelodon uralicus Parallelodon whitei Parallelodon xijinwulanensis
Type: Macrodon rugosus
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Japan (5 collections), the Russian Federation (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (17: California, Colorado)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (1), Argentina (25), Canada (3: British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (38), China (1), Ethiopia (2), France (49), Germany (32), Greenland (26), Italy (5), Japan (8), Mexico (2), Poland (1), Portugal (4), Saudi Arabia (30), Somalia (1), Spain (68), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5), Sweden (1), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (4), Thailand (1), Tunisia (14), Turkey (3), the United Kingdom (28), United States (3: Alaska, Oregon), Yemen (3)
• Triassic of Austria (8), Bosnia and Herzegovina (3), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (2), China (15), Germany (7), Hungary (13), Indonesia (3), Iran (6), Israel (1), Italy (31), Japan (4), New Caledonia (2), New Zealand (3), Peru (3), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Alaska, Nevada, Oregon, Utah)
• Permian of Afghanistan (1), Australia (43), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (27), Germany (1), Greenland (1), India (5), Indonesia (2), Italy (2), Japan (5), Lithuania (2), Malaysia (1), New Zealand (3), Pakistan (9), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (11), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Tunisia (5), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (44), United States (17: Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Belize (2), Brazil (3), Chile (1), China (2), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (1), Ireland (4), Mexico (3), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (16), United States (64: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, West Virginia)
• Devonian of Australia (1), China (3), Germany (3), Poland (2), United States (33: Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvannia)
• Arenig of France (1)
• Ordovician of Bolivia (1)
Total: 838 collections including 965 occurrences
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